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ad hoc

[ad hok, ahd hohk] / æd ˈhɒk, ɑd ˈhoʊk /
ADJECTIVE
for a specific purpose
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Rountree’s interdisciplinary “sessions” run from the musically sophisticated and accomplished to ad hoc and participatory funkiness, less designed to change minds than to relieve democracy anxiety.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 2, 2026

Levine and a colleague, Monique Johnson, decided to ask for outside help by launching an ad hoc podcast, Portrait of Possibilities, and they enlisted other experts such as Sullivan to be guests.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 26, 2026

“The key question remains whether management can protect cash generation while gradually improving underlying profitability. On both metrics, the ad hoc was arguably more reassuring than the headline numbers suggests.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 21, 2026

The tribes hope it will turn their ad hoc emergency work — which has coincided with an increase of chi in the lake — into a lasting strategy to protect the fish.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026

The ad hoc village that would serve as our home for the next six weeks sat at the head of a natural amphitheater delineated by forbidding mountain walls.

From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer


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